So, I am a sexual assault survivor. It was what you’d probably consider “illegitimate rape” if you were a Republican. I told this story long ago on here, but my abusive ex boyfriend would basically threaten to murder me if I didn’t have sex with him. At least once he did it by starting to strangle me (hard to remember because that time in my life is what I would call “nightmare salad”).

I never went to the police or anything (except to attempt to get a restraining order for his subsequent stalking after we broke up), and I didn’t really recognize it as rape until years later, honestly after I had started hanging around here.

So anyway, I don’t know if any SA survivors out there are having similar feelings as me in this moment but:

Energized: I am feeling like running around karate kicking everything into explosions. I’m really...pumped up. Rose McGowan tweeting today that Weinstein raped her like awakened some sort of ass kicker and felt like a huge cathartic breath of air for me.

Heartbroken for her and all his victims who are coming forward and have had to endure this and live watching this guy getting validation and success for decades

So damn fucking proud of Rose and these women.

I am so outraged at the structure in place that allows these powerful predators to thrive, and McGowan’s little Twitter suspension made me rage out a little this morning because it was such a targeted misogynist act considering all the sexist garbage (and rape threats, no less!) women on Twitter face all the time.